I started crushing the barbs on the lures I use to Brook Trout fish with because it's very easy to kill a small trout if the hook gets into their gut.

Next, I switched ALL my treble hooks to single hooks.
  When they banned them in the Q, I already was a fan of barbless and single hooks.

All my lures are now single hooks as well as barbless. Even my floating/dive baits are single hooks. I usually leave just the tailhook on smaller baits. 3 treble hook baits I take off the front treble and make the other 2 single barbless hooks.

  One thing I found out real fast is that once you set that barbless hook, especially a solo single hook, you need to keep the line tight and the rod tip up.

From my limited experience, the difference in losing fish with a barbed/treble vs single barbless is negligible and easily outweighed by how much easier it is to release fish AND not put a hook into your hand.  ;) ;D ;D

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